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Northumbrian (locomotive)
Northumbrian was an 1830 Robert Stephenson steam locomotive for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway that hauled the inaugural train and carried the injured William Huskisson.
Northumbrian Water
Northumbrian Water is a privately owned water and sewerage company serving 2.7 million customers in north east England and 2 million in Essex and Suffolk as Essex & Suffolk Water.
Northvolt
Northvolt was a Swedish lithium-ion battery cell maker founded by former Tesla executives in 2016, which built Europe's first homegrown gigafactory in Skellefteå before going bankrupt in 2025.
Northwest (Washington, D.C.)
Northwest Washington, D.C.: largest of the city's four quadrants, about 42 percent of the land, including Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, and Rock Creek Park.
Northwest Africa 7034
Northwest Africa 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty", is a Martian meteorite found in Morocco's Sahara in 2011 that founded a new class of water-rich Martian breccias.
Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines, also known as Northwest Orient, was a major American airline founded in 1926, with hubs in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Memphis, and merged into Delta in 2010.
Northwest Airlines Flight 188
Northwest Airlines Flight 188 was a 2009 San Diego to Minneapolis flight whose distracted pilots overflew the airport after losing radio contact for over an hour.
Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Northwest Airlines Flight 253, known as the Christmas Day bomb plot, was the target of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed underwear bombing near Detroit on December 25, 2009.
Northwest Airlines Flight 255
Northwest Airlines Flight 255, an MD-82 (N312RC), crashed on takeoff from Detroit Metro on August 16, 1987, with flaps and slats retracted; 156 died, one child survived, cause was skipped taxi checklist plus a silent takeoff warning system.
Northwest Airlines Flight 85
Northwest Airlines Flight 85 was a scheduled Detroit-to-Tokyo passenger flight whose 747-400 suffered a lower rudder hardover at cruise altitude on October 9, 2002, landing safely at Anchorage.
Northwest Angle
The Northwest Angle is Minnesota's 123-square-mile northernmost exclave, US territory north of the 49th parallel created by the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 Convention, reachable by road only through Canada.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) is a regional fisheries management organization, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Halifax, Canada, that manages most fisheries in the international waters of the Northwest Atlantic.
Northwest Caucasian languages
Northwest Caucasian (Abkhaz-Adyghe, West Caucasian) languages: a Caucasus family of Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian, and extinct Ubykh, known for huge consonant inventories, few vowels, and polysynthetic verbs.
Northwest Indian War
Northwest Indian War (1790–1795, also Little Turtle's War): US campaigns under Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne against the Western Indian Confederacy in the Old Northwest, ending with the 1795 Treaty of Greenville ceding two-thirds of Ohio.
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance (1787), adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787, governed the Northwest Territory, banned slavery there, and set the three-stage path to equal-footing statehood used as the nation expanded.
Northwest Palace, Nimrud
The Northwest Palace at Nimrud, built by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II around 879 BC, was his principal residence, known for its carved stone reliefs and winged bulls.
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route through Canada's Arctic archipelago linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, long sought by European explorers and first sailed by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906.
Northwest Pipeline
Northwest Pipeline is an interstate natural gas pipeline system owned by the Williams Companies, spanning nearly 4,000 miles across six states and serving the western United States.
Northwest Region (Cameroon)
Northwest Region of Cameroon: English-speaking region with capital Bamenda, special status under Law 2019/24, bicameral Regional Assembly with House of Chiefs, Regional Executive Council, agriculture-based economy, and separatist conflict since 2017.
Northwest Stadium
Northwest Stadium, formerly FedExField and Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, is the Washington Commanders' NFL stadium in Landover, Maryland, opened 1997; renamed 2024 via Northwest Federal Credit Union deal, with a new DC stadium planned for 2030.
Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories (Territoires du Nord-Ouest): Canadian territory created July 15, 1870, capital Yellowknife, area 1,346,106 km2, population about 45,900 in 33 communities, 11 official languages, consensus government, Nunavut split off in 1999, land and resource devolution in 2014.
Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory: first organized U.S. territory (1787), north and west of the Ohio River, covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota, governed under the Northwest Ordinance with a three-stage path to equal statehood and slavery prohibited.
Northwestel
Northwestel is the dominant telecommunications company of northern Canada, serving 97 communities from Whitehorse, and BCE agreed in 2024 to sell it to Sixty North Unity.
Northwestern Army
The Northwestern Army (Северо-Западная армия) was a White Russian anti-Bolshevik force of the Russian Civil War, led by General Nikolai Yudenich against Petrograd from Estonian territory in 1918–1920.
Northwestern Borneo
Northwestern Borneo (FEOW ecoregion 742) is a freshwater ecoregion covering Sarawak and Brunei's coastal rivers draining to the South China Sea, with 26 endemic fish species and two endemic genera, Paedocypris and Parawaous.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Leeward Islands, NWHI) are the mostly uninhabited northwestern three quarters of the Hawaiian archipelago, from Nihoa to Kure Atoll, within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with predator-dominated coral reefs and 2025 sanctuary designation.
Northwestern Krai
The Northwestern Krai (Северо-Западный край) was an unofficial 19th-century name for six governorates of the Russian Empire, covering the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and centered on Vilna.
Northwestern Madagascar
Northwestern Madagascar, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 580, covers all westward-flowing drainages from Antsiranana to the Mahavavy du Sud plus Nosy Be. It holds relict endemic cichlids (Paretroplus, Ptychochromis), Lake Kinkony, and the last wild pinstripe damba at Lac Tseny.
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual, formally The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, is a mutual life insurer founded in 1857 and the largest direct provider of individual life insurance in the United States.
Northwestern Syria offensive (2024)
The Northwestern Syria offensive of 2024, known as Operation Deterrence of Aggression, was launched by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from Idlib on 27 November 2024 against Bashar al-Assad's government.